How Water Towers Work

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The towns around here don't have water towers. There is usually a storage tank up on the nearest hill. I always found it hilarious when I traveled to the flat Midwest and every town had a water tower with their town's name on it.

Too much unnecessary talks.

How come the water tower doesn't also add back pressure on the pump when it's being drained?

Pump=Power supply/voltage source. Tower=Capacitor.

what does this have to do with socks?

This video was not about how water towers work, but what they are.

Videos like this don't come along often. I would watch it again and again!

This video is great & has lot of effort & researches behind it, Great job!
Water Towers are great solutions for the Water network, that to design the network on the Max. daily demands only for the network before the water tower, but the network after the water towers (the downstream) will remain designed on Max. hourly demand.
However, there are other solutions to element the water towers & to design the entire network on the Max. daily demand by having a mandatory 2 days ground storage tank under each housebuilding.
There are too many other solutions as well. Thanks

There is about 60 seconds of information in this long winded blather explaination that yeah a tank holds water. Duh.

Interesting. I live in North Texas and we have so many water towers throughout the cities. However being from southern New England, you do not see any water towers.

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But water tower disappears in modern city…….Why?

So its a water capacitor.

1,7k dislike. Who hates water. What kind of human hates water. Must be rocks or steel.

Interest

i have absolutely no idea if we have watertowers here in Switzerland…. most terrain is hills or mountains, so it flows naturally doen and pressurizes self. more often than not it has to be de-pressurized before feeding into the village network. lower parts of Switzerland use pumps to get groundwater pressurized…

Damn all this water talk made me thirsty! Thanks water towers n pressure! Lol

Just want to say keep up the great work. I just completed a 4 year MEng Engineering course over in the UK and I have learnt so much from your videos.

Also, because I am very pedantic, in 2:21, positive charge flows from high to low voltage so electrons actually flow from low to high voltage. Anyway, I am sure you knew that but just thought I'd point that out as a fellow engineer!

Excellent video, should be used in all schools for kids aged 12 +. Other topics: sewage and elektricity supply.

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water towers act the same as capacitors used for voltage regulation

Now I'm jealous I didnt get the water tower collapse video

Too bad almost everyone in america is scared to death by tap water 😂

I would like to see a video on how water pressure reducing valves operate. I’ve taken them apart but I still don’t understand who they work.

I have designed water systems with three wells and two elevated water tanks at different elevations. Make for interesting calculations.
Two wells and one tank served as pressure sources for the higher system and the lower system. The third well and second tank was the pressure source for the lower system.

I think you are great .

Fun fact: "Bombas", the sponsor, is also the Spanish word for "pumps"

Thanks guys! Thanks Grady!

Water Towers are also used for allowing valves to be closed. When you close a valve rapidly, the water flowing hits the closed valve and flows in the opposite direction which can cause the pipes to hammer and cause leaks. This water has to have somewhere to go therefor it goes back in the Tower.

But how to guarantee the water in elevated tanks won't be polluted?

Don’t electrons go from negative to positive not from high voltage to low??

This was definitely very interesting. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

Thanks for all your work man. Also, Bombas socks are truly the best. I have a few pair.